Live blog Monday June 16 – Cannes Lions | Monthly news site rankings | iPhone fitness | Giant kittens | Yahoo7 raids News Corp ranks | New ads: Kia, iiNet & Woolworths

Tim Burrowes

June 16, 2014 8:10

This is Mumbrella’s live rolling diary of the day’s media and marketing events, in Australia and across the rest of the world. Times are East Coast.

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Anne Markey hired to boost Yahoo7’s online audience
Optus launches Josh Thomas-fronted campaign
I Wanna Marry Harry to continue to air on Ten
Audience: New leader in Nielsen’s monthly news site rankings
Cannes: Aussie PR agencies lose out to their creative counterparts in the PR Lions
Cannes: Our video hangout with Adam Ferrier
Cannes: Dumb Ways To Die is one of four Australian entires in contention for the Creative Effectiveness category
Cannes: Aussie agencies on the shortlists for Innovation, Promo & Activation and Direct Lions

8.05pm – Not a bad showing for Australian agencies in the Media Lions shortlist.

7.40pm – There’s not much recognition for Australia in the Press Lions shortlist. As usual.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.